I think we have mentioned them before, these new screwtops which don’t separate from the ring round the neck of the bottle. I hate them because they don’t alway go back on without the thread being cross screwed.
So I get my scissors and snip them off, trouble is that leaves a sharp little bit to scratch the skin. But I can, with some difficulty snip the whole ring off. There is always a danger of self stabbing however.
Today was different the scissors slipped but, intead of stabbing me, they flipped the whole thing out of my hand to empty itself all over the kitchen floor.
A lot of mopping and drying later with the dogs barred by various pieces of furniture, I thought it was all done and dusted. But, my boots were now sticking to the floor, I felt a bit like a clown with enormous shoes who can bend right over without falling down. A bit easier now though with my slippers on but I feel it might be sometime before we are back to normal.
You have my sympathy. Sticky kitchen floor a constant possibility on our household. My last “escapade” was chocolate powder tipped in the toaster! I was lifting it out of the cupboard and the lid came away from the container. Our toast tasted interesting for a while.
Yes. Nightmare trying to open anything now….even a bottle of milk. Is it just me or have these tops become more difficult. I never had to resort to scissors before with a resulting jagged top. Maybe just old age catching up with me
Yes they are awkward, I give the annoying plastic connection a little bit of a stretch and then there is sufficient to avoid the cross threading.
Alternatively avoid that orange juice its really unhealthy.
Its a lot better, its partly due to so many oranges used to make a glass of juice and its devoid of the fibre. You wouldnt eat 5 oranges one after another but its easy to consume that amount in a moderate sized glass. It makes your blood sugar go very high very quickly so your body is unlikely to cope with the insulin demand so switches on fat storage to help.
Industrial juice according to Tim Spector who has visited the manufacturing plant, the juice is stored for up to two years however due to its acidic nature cannot be stored in vats as it would eat its way through the stainless steel so its denatured (they remove the acid with other chemicals) its heat treated and stored, before its packaged they add several chemicals and some acid to give it back its edge. Its an ultraprocessed food being sold as a health product.
Will now stick to squeezing my own. I think it’s so awful that people who think they are choosing the healthy option….ie OJ instead of other drinks such as Pepsi etc are not aware of the manufacturing process. My daughter is educating me on what foods are ultra processed Quite an eye opener. Too late for me to bother but anyone with young children should do their research
I must be one of the very few people who think that having tethered caps on plastic bottles is a brilliant idea.
Did anyone notice when ring pulls on pop and beer cans no longer became detachable? I was watching my son play football many years ago. The centre forward and goalkeeper both went for the same ball at the same time. The goalkeeper’s face was sliced open and he was left permanently disfigured after being cut by a detachable ring pull that had stuck on his opponent’s football boot stud.
The same goes for plastic bottles. Small plastic tops cause more damage to wildlife than a whole bottle. Now they must be made of the same class of material as the bottle to make recycling more efficient. Before that, that had to be sorted separately (that is if they even made it as far as the recycle bin).
Yes, some of the earlier models were awkward and difficult to use. Since then a lot of research has gone into their design. I personally find them easier to use now than when they were detachable.
Not the only one Mik, its a great idea, just needs a little more refinement for it to be easier for everyone to close. As I said just stretch the connecting part a little and it makes it easier to refit the cap
You have my sympathy… OH always tips the bottle upside down to mix it, so every so often we get sticky patches on the stone floor. Now I always cut the ring off, so there! Carefully of course…
That might explain why some bottles contain more orange bits in them rather than just juice.
As far as the health of orange juice is concerned I think being stabbed will get me first.
But I thought I was doing the right thing, I drink it rather than coffee. But I do drink quite a lot of tap water. Go on tell me I am killing myself with that, I am not in England you know.
Which is defeating one of the things that they are trying to achieve - to reduce the amount of small plastic items that get littered/lost/left in nature
Still no match for nature and the whole fruit.
Well coffee was demonised but several now state the fibre in coffee to be good, also some of the compounds in coffee likewise, but again thats coffee not instant which is just another ultra processed food.
We make our own choices and thats fine but better to be informed of the truth than the lies of the marketing departments.
The area affected yesterday is not so sticky now, but the reason for that is various kinds of normal dust, not usually noticed, have been attracted to the surface leaving a plainly visible stain which bears a resemblance to one that would remain if I had a dead body left there for a few days.
I think another mopping is due before my mate the Maire (and, now reserve, Gendarme) pays another visit.
The captive top is a measure to counter the bad behaviour of those who don’t care or don’t understand the consequences of their (in)actions. Sensible people simply do not understand littering, but it clearly doesn’t register on the care scale of many others - witness roadside littering that can only have come from passing vehicles .
This careless attitude means that the use of single use plastic bottles & cartons at events & in public spaces generates a vast amount of litter; the caps do get left off & the bottles discarded separately (sometimes after only one gulp of the drink itself!). The bottles are large enough to collect but the tops disappear into the ground, hedgerows etc. They then become a danger to wildlife or farm animals who might ingest them, or they break down into microplastics that, as we all know, are now everywhere in the environment & our bodies.
Sadly all we have to suffer the minor inconveniences outlined previously due to the selfishness of those who lack a care gene.
